KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 30 -- A 34-year-old businesswoman scored a major win after a botched buttocks enhancement procedure by an unlicensed beautician left her in pain and needing multiple surgeries.

Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reports the Melaka Sessions Court awarded her roughly RM308,000 in damages.

Sessions Court judge Azaraorni Rahman ruled that beautician Lai Ching Nee and her company, Amyza Let Beauty, were negligent and made false promises about the procedure.

The damages cover pain and suffering, the original procedure, post-surgery treatment, future medical care, plus RM50,000 in exemplary damages as a warning to illegal operators in the beauty industry.

"The plaintiff expected the defendant to carry out her services and deliver t...